Body found at lake in Stewart County

DOVER, Tenn. — The state Medical Examiner’s Office is working to identify a body that was discovered Sunday morning washed up on the shore of Lake Barkley in Stewart County.

“There’s no indication that this was a local person,” said Stewart County Sheriff Deryk Wyatt. “We have no missing person’s reports and there’s no match with any around the area. Nor were there any indications of any foul play.”

The sheriff said the ME’s office indicated the body was of a man, approximately 5 feet, 11 inches in height, who wore 32- to 34-waist pants and a size 13 shoe.

No further information such as race or hair color were released.

“The body was pretty decomposed,” Wyatt said. “All indications were that it had been in the water for a while.”

A resident of the Cedar Point area of the county, which is near the Kentucky border, was walking the along the shoreline and found the body among a pile of driftwood. The Sheriff’s Office received the call about the discovery at 7:10 a.m. on Sunday.

“Apparently, it (the body) came into the cove back when the water was real high,” the sheriff said.

Wyatt said the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation was notified as deputies recovered the body, which was sent to Nashville Medical Examiner’s Office.

The sheriff said information about the body was sent out nationwide and no law enforcement agencies have responded regarding a match of missing persons.

Mark Hicks can be reached at 931-212-7626 or on Twitter: @markhicksleaf.